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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

Christensen Institute

In some ways, this use of online learning could be a classic case of a disruptive innovation, which begins as a primitive innovation. As a result, disruptive innovations typically start by serving areas of nonconsumption—where the alternative is nothing at all.

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When Disruption Becomes Destructive: How Can Financial Services Companies Close the Innovation Gap?

Qmarkets

billion in 2015. We now live in an era where 53% of millennials don’t think their current bank offers anything special or different than other banks, according to the ground-breaking Millennial Disruption Index. Department of Commerce, the two sectors employed more than 6 million people in 2015. Across the pond, the City A.M.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 of the company.

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Innovation Insights from Jeff Bezos and Amazon

Destination Innovation

He started the company in his garage where he wrote the software systems for online commerce. By 2015 Amazon Web Services was the world’s leading provider of Cloud infrastructure services. Amazon’s strengths lay in excellent web services, software and logistics. Disrupt your own business before someone else does.

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You Are Being Digitally Disrupted – Do Something About It

The Inovo Group

P&G), software (e.g., become merely just more ‘software’ once they are commercialized. The practical application of neural network technology due to advances in both hardware and software, has finally crossed a threshold that has resulted in a rapid advance in capability that shows no sign of ending. Phillips, A.N.,

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Continuing the Energy Transition Journey

Paul Hobcraft

The Grid Edge includes the innovative solutions of hardware, software, and business innovation that are enabling smart infrastructure to be installed at or near the “edge” of the electric power grid. During this past week, I have been working through specific aspects of the energy transition model.

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PLM Re-Birth at McDonald’s: How to Maximize Value in a Decentralized Organization

Innovation Excellence

[note these videos are from 2015]. McDonald’s, the world’s largest fast food restaurant chain, began its product lifecycle management (PLM) journey in 2005.

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